Weather today, July 1 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued orange alert for Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, predicting heavy rainfall on July 1.

IMD in its latest press release stated, "Heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places likely over Konkan & Goa, Ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra, Gujarat state during next 7 days."

Moving to weather forecast for Northeast India, the weather agency predicted, "Light/moderate rainfall at most places accompanied with thunderstorm, lightning and isolated heavy rainfall likely to continue over Northeast India during next 7 days with very heavy rainfall over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura on 02nd...